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Esq “ Let Sound Reason weigh more with us than Popular Opinion”; ' RICHMOND HILL, FR . . . _ ___...__. W.‘ __~___-__~._.~__-____~._m.__._..â€" WW ...._ __ _,.._.__._._. THE SECRET. I read the secret well. darling, Upon your brow and check, Ah 1 the roses and the lilies, 110w plainly do they speak. You tried to hide your trembling heart, Beneath a proud repose ; But all the hidden thoughts came out And blossomed in the rose. 1 saw the quivering lashes droop, When he was by your side ; The little rese-bud lips were curled With half affected pride. I heard the smothered low-breathed sigh, That struggled to be free ; And knew the heart was fluttering like A leaf upon a tree. I knew some lender hand had loosed The roses bright and fair, That twincd around your bowered heart And made his temple there ; And all day long he wooed the flowers With rippling songs and sighs; Until the roses kissed your checks, The violets kissed your eyes. Ah ! yes, I read the secret well, As plain as words could speak ; In the deep silence of the eyes, And on the blushing cheek. Ah 1 little prisonod bird the heart. 18 caged, and never may ‘ It beat against its golden bars, And long to fly away. ’illitiiutuii. - “rmâ€"J Tales of the Slave Squadron. T1115 REVENGE. WE took El Reyna into Sierra Leone, and while there, news was brought that Le Requin (The Shark) 8 filly-named, notorious and succes- ful slavcr, was on the coast. This vessel, the property of a French Brazillan Creole, was commanded by a skillful and active desperado of the English name of Harrison, and once a petty officer of the royal navy. His assumed designation, however, was borrowed from the fine craft he commandedâ€"Captain Le Requin,â€"and he was reported to have under his orders a motley crew of someof the most reckless rufllans that could he picked out of the refuse of half a dozen nations. It was, moreover, well known that Le Requin, when the ‘Black ’ mar- ket was slack, overstocked, or more than usually hazardous, did a little in the way of ordinary, admitted piracy; and stringent orders had consequently been issued to the of- ficers of the squadron to use their utmost efforts to sink or capture so daring and unsorupulous a rover. It was manifest that Lieutenant Armstrong listened to the many rumors afloat relative to the pro- bable whereabout of Le Requin, with a for deeper than merely pro- fessmnal interest. He inquires as to the appearance of the vessel, and the haunts she chiefly frequented, were earnest and incessant; and it ,was whispered amongst us that Harrison had served in the same ship with the commander of the Cuilcw, and that circun‘istances of an unusual character had occurred in connection with them both.â€" YORK MILLS HOTEL, YONGE STREET, E Subscriber begs to intimate that he has leased the above hotel, and having fitted it upin the latest style travellers may rely upon having every comfort and attention at this first class house. Good Stabling and an attentive Hustler al- Ways in attendance. WILLlAM LENNOX, Proprietor, York Mills, June 7. 1861. 13‘3-ly Wellington Hotel, Aurora ! OPPOSITE THE TORONTO HOUSE. JAMES 30 UL TON, Esq. Barrister, Law Officeâ€"Corner of Church and King Sts. TH Toronto, March 8. 1861. llU-tf Mason’s Arms Hotel '. \VEST MARKET SQUARE, TORONTO. OBERT CUX begs to inform his friends, and the travelling public. that he has taken the above llotel, lately occupied by Mr. \V. Srnnns. where he hopes, by strict attention to the comforts and convenience of his guests, to merit an equal share ofthe patronage given to his predecessor. 190 GEO. L. GRAHâ€"Xlll, PROPRIETOR. Toronto, July 17, 1862. Mrw LARGE and Commodious Halland other M a. 10 1 e H O t e 1 3 improvement have, at great expense, ‘HE Subscriber begs to inform his friends been made so as to make this House thelurgest am. the public generally, that he has and best north of' Toronto. Travellers at this opened an HOTEL in the Village of Maple. 4th Con. Vaughan, where he hopes, by atten. tion to the comforts of the travelling commu- nity. to merit a share of their patronage and llouso find every convenience both for them- selves and horses. ' N.B.â€"A carefulostler always in attendance Aurora Station, April 1861. 126-ly Support. Coed Stabling, doc, JAMES \VA'l‘SON, ‘ W Maple, July 17. 1862, 190 I, ‘, , 7â€"» -~ W M ~ 7 - W 7 7 » 7- r".:_" i. :J‘iei-‘L‘ George W 11.63011, _, g ‘ (LATE ruoiii nkomnn) .j, I. "5“, ‘ j 9,, flaflfiutttt 13313115 fliflttlr, ~ f - r- s," . lthllMONl) HILL, THO S M AN ___. ' " 3 001) Accommodations and every attention . .- "Nf shown to Travellers. Good Yards for Drove Cattle and Loose Boxes for Race Horses MAKER, and Studs. The host of Liquors and Cigars kept con- c. c. c. stautly on hand. The Monthly Fair hold on the Premises first Residenceâ€"Nearly opposite tire Post,Oflice, Wednesday in each month. Richmond Hill ~Mahmoud Ilill. April 8. 1862. 157 .’ March 14, 1802. However this might be, there Was evidently some strong private mo- tive at the bottom of the Lieuten- ant’s desperate anxiety to get away in search of the piractical slower, and so quickly did he dispatch his official business relative to the Curâ€" lew’s last "important capture, that we were to sea again in loss than half the time we had reckoned upon remaining at Sierra Leone. Our course was to the south and cast, and as the winds proved favorable, the Curlew rapidly swept the Afri- can sea board from Sierra Leone to the Bight of Biafra, looking as we passed into every inlet that pretty accurately at the character of both. The headmost was a square-rigged ship, of about four hundred tons burihen, pursued by an armed schooner of half that too- nage, coming up with her hand over hand. Commander Armstrong im- mediately pronounced the schooner to he Le Requin,»*‘an~ opinion con- firmed by several old salts who had obtained a passing glimpse of the celebrated cralt upon one or two oc- casions. As the Curlew, in antici- pation of a dirty night, had been made very snug, and did not show much top-hamper, it was hepcd she might not be seen till Lo Requin was within reach of her guns. For upwards of an hour this appeared likely enough; but at last the anxi- men, whose cycs swept the horizon in all directions, from the merchantman’s deck, caught sight 0! us, and unable to restrain their exultation at the glad vision of a British man-of-war‘creeping up to the rescue, instantly let Off a piece of pop-gun artillery, ran up the union-jack, and set up a tiny shout in derision of the pui‘suer. which the direction of the wind just en- abled us to hear and echo, with sundry very hearty maledictions of their stupid throats. Le Requin quickly hauled her wind, and at once recognizing the character of her new customer, got with all pos- sible speed upon the same tack as ourselves, and being a remarkably fine weatherly vessel, went off full half a pomt closer to the wind than the Curlew, thus showing from the first moment the well-nigh hopeless aspect of the chase. Night fellâ€"â€" black as the inside of a tar-barrelâ€" with agale of wind that by mid- night had increased to a tempest, accompanied by flashes of lightning and pools of thunder, which those acquainted only with the electrical phenomena of temperate regions, can form but a faint conception of. Frequently, during the~~ night, -:a more than usually brilliant corusc'aa tion showed us Le Requin, upon me white crest of a huge wave, far away to windward; but who the cold grey morning dawned, the schooner had utterly disappeared, leaving us miserably cold, wet, dis- appointed, and savage. One thing at all events, our night’s chase had taught us,â€"â€"â€"thut the Curlew was no match for Le Requin in point of Speed, and that if we ever should succeed in putting salt upon his tail, it must be by some cleverer OUS IpAY, OCTOBER 10, tees. day-light. these thgS being agaih, taker] of surrender. carefully timed, we made way. at an firing average rate of not more than three or four knots whom, and in as lubo berly a fashton~considering the but recent practice of the crew in that lineâ€"as could be expected-â€" Time crept on as lazily as we did, and doubts whether our captain’s clever conlrivance would not end in smoke, were beginning to be on- she hal fallen in with, laden with ivory, palm-oil, and gold-dust, had been plundered the previous even- ing by a piratical schooner supposed to be Le Requin. The crew, it was further stated, had not been person- ADVERTISER? 57 TERMS $1, 50 In Advance. . when. No. 202. The the sohtwner was, hailed to send her captain on board the Curlew imme- -_at once ceased, and diate‘ly. In a minute or so it was replied that the captain had been carried below, mortally wounded, was rapidly bleedingito death, and could net therefore be removed. 1 was standing close by Commander Armstrong at the moment, and no- ticed that a hot, .swarthy flush passed over-his pale, excited fea- tures. After a moment’s thought he said, hastily ‘ Sutcliffe, have a boat alongside, manned and armed, as quickly as you can; 1 must see this fellow myself, and that without delay, it seems.’ So raving, he left the deck. By the time the boat was ready, he reappeared in full V uniform, and was swiftly rowed on board the prize. . After briefly directing the men to disarm and secure the crew, he hur- ally maltreated, and the barquc had proceeded on her course. This was great news, and so well did it sharpen the optics of many of us. that an almost simultaneous hail from half a-dozen voices, at day- break the next morning, announced a strange sail, hull-down, astern, and steering westward. *Every glass in the sloop was quickly di- rected towards'the stranger, whose white sails -â€"unmistakeably those of a schoonerâ€"glanced brilliantly in the newly-risen unclouded sun.â€" Everybody felt or affected to be sure it was Le Requin; and when the schoonerâ€"which did not appear to see usâ€"turncd her bowspz‘it to- wards the Curlew, and crowded sail (the wind was southerlyâ€"right aft) cvrdemly in pursuit, the last linger- ing doubt vanished. And we. of course, zealously busicd ourselves with ostentatious efforts to effect our escape from the suspicious- looking craft. But spite of all we could do, souniserably was. our ship handled and steeredâ€"~tcrror-stricken men do nething wellâ€"~that we could give five knots hardly out of her; and the ferocious schooner would, it was quite certain, be up with us in less than no time- The com- mander's face was deathly pale from over excitement, I supposed; and as for the crew, they were in an ec- stacy of uncontrollable mirth. The notion of a British sloop-of-war run- ning,away from, and being chased by a slaver or pirate, was a joke so exquisite as to defy all ordinary modes of expression; and the as- tounding capers the men cutâ€"â€"the grimly comical squints and winks, and quiet grins (Silence being lstrictly enforced) they exchanged tertained, when we spoke a "brig bound for the Cape, a little north of the equator, which gave us the plea- sant information that a large barque ried below, motioning as he did so, that I should accompany him. The captain of Le Requinâ€"a tall, gaunt, but not,I should think, principally ill-looking mamâ€"was unquestion- ably dying. .His right leg had been carried away above the knee by a round shot, and althought a rude tourniquet had been applied, the loss of blood had previously been so great that life, as we entered, fluttered but feebly in his veins, and there were scant breath left,it struck me, in the mutilated, panting frame, to answer much questioning, if that were, as I supposed, Lieutenant Armstrong’sjpurpose “there. This was my first impression; but the furiously triumphant scowl that broke from his darkening eyes, at the sound of his visitor’s voice (he had not seemed to recognise him by ight), testified to the still unstamped energy of will, which could thus force back retreating life to the ci~ tadel it had all but finally abandoned. He partially roi‘sed himself, and glared at the lieutenant, as if in fearful doubt that his failing eye- sight and hearing had deceived him. ‘ You hereâ€"Lieutenant Arm- strong here,’ here he hoarsely gasped as he fell backâ€"then is death welcome as a bride l’ '1 am sorry to see you thus, Harrison,’ said the lieutenant, in a compassionate tone. ‘1 would much rather have met you alive and well.’ 'You could never have captured me alive,’ retorted Harrison.â€" ‘ That [am always provided against. expedient than that of running af- Willi each other and the advancing And sorry are you 3’ he went on for him at the rate of five feet to his 501100119", were irresistibly dl‘Oll-â€"- relapsing into feeblcness. six. Captain Armstrong looked| considerably bluer than the bluest' of us, and did not reappear on deck till five or six hours after the ascer- tained disappearance of the schoo-, ner. He then ordered the Curlew’s course to be changed to the north- west till further orders. Those fur-. ther orders were not issued till about noon on the morrow,when the sloop’sl heads were pointed nearly somh; and whilst cracking on under a stiff breeze in that direction, the com- mander’s new ‘dodge’ for entrap- ping,r the covcrtcd prey developed itself. The broad white ribbon along the gun line, was painted black; our No. 1 man-of-mar can- vas was exchanged for some worn, and here and there patched, mei- chantâ€"sails, fished up from the hold ; the shiny brass fittings of the deck, and the glittering figure-head, were smudng brown; the brass swivel- gun amidships was unshipped and sent below ;. the carpenter and his crew manufactured a lot of wooden gunâ€"muzzles (Quakers’) and these, when painted, were protruded from the port holes, in place of the real barkei's, which were carefully con- cealcd beneath tarpulin, sails, hen- coops, gratings, and other lumber, andso ostentatiously warlike were the ‘ Quakers’ fashioned that their harmless character could be detected by half an eye, at half a league’s distance. Many other minor might afford shelter or concealment to the object of our search. A sharp, wearing ‘lookvout was at length rewarded by a passing gleam of success. We were within about thirty leagues of Cape Lopez, which bore about S. S. \V., and we were steering, close-hauled upon the larboard tack, as nearly as pos- sible W. in order to give the Cape as wide a berth as might be in passing, when the look-out at the masthead announced first one, and then two sail on the weather-bow. They rose quickly out of the water, and no wonder, for they had half a gale of wind on the quarter, and iii 172,“ was not long before we could ;ucssl changes and disguises were effected, and the Curlew’s lransmogrificaiion was complete. We now gradually edged away to the eastward, and as soon as we reached about nine de- grees south latitude, and five de- grees east longtitude, the Curlew’s bows once more pointed northward, and we crept slowly enough along in the day, whilst during the night we generally lay to, in order not to get along too rapidly. By the commander’s orders, all the officers, himself includedâ€"«replaced their epaulcttcd and laced uniforms and cooked hats, by round jackets and hats, and not more than twenty men ‘ The Once it was feared that a misgiving l time is past when that might have as to whom it was he was so eagerly pursuing had seized our friend, for when not more than half a league astern, he suddenly luffcd, and stood across our wake, apparently in keen scrutinizing observation. His hesi- tation was but” momentaryâ€"the fierce aspect of the ‘ Quakers,’ 1 think, rc-assured him,â€"and the chase was resumed. In about half an hour he ranged fiercely up on our weather-beam. and as the red flash and white smoke which her- alded a shot across the Curlew’s bows, broke out of the schooner’s side a hoarse, powerful voice roared through a trumpet from the after- part of the deck, ‘Hcave too, or 1’” smk you.’ _ The commander of the Curlew leaped upon a gun-carriage, lifted his round glazed hat. and rejoinedjn as loud and fierce, but mocking tone, 'That will we, Captain Le Requin, and in a hurry too.’ At the same instant the seamen concealed about the deck sprang to their feet, the rest of, the crow tumbled, with loud shouts, up the hatchways, the ‘ Quakers’ ’ were shoved overboard, and before the astounded captors well comprehendedwhat had hap. pened, they were confronted by the frowning, double-shotted battery of the Curlew, and flight or resistence was out of the question. As soon, however, as the wild, confused yell of rage and terror which arose from the motley crew that crowded to the slave pirate’s deck had suffi- ciently subsided to permit of her captain’s vorce being heard, a des- perate but of course futile effort to escape was made. We were in no trim 01 humor for another chasc,and at a wave from Captain Armstrong’s hand gun after gun belched forth its iron shower upon the ill-starred schooner, and with such a terrible havoc to her spans and rigging, that in a few minutes she was a hopeless log upon the water. The pirate were alloxvetl to be on deck during. l l l l i l availed. You have been my rock ahead through lile-â€"-always. El Reyna and her dusky cargo were partly mineâ€"and now Le chuin’s gone. Yesâ€"ever my triumphant foeâ€"oppressorE. But,’ he added, again with kindling ferocity, ‘the last stake is the crowning one, and that, thatâ€"Lieutenant Armstrongâ€"- I wiu.’ » ‘1 once did you grievous wrong, Harrison,’ replied the lieutenant, hcedless of this idle menaceâ€"unin- tentionally so. It was a mistakeâ€" a blunder, which I regionâ€"al- thoughâ€"#4 'It was a murder!’ screamed the dying seamen-J murder of soul and body. For another’s fault-- not. mineâ€"you lacerated my flesh and brutified my spirit. I was a lost man from that hour! 1, gently born to beâ€"but no matter. Well, I ran, was caught,â€"again flayed by your order,-â€"â€"yet 1 escaped at last, and nowâ€"now 1” The savagely-exultant tone of these words not only startled me, but also for a moment the steel- nerved commander of the Curlew. it seemed a vain alarm. There was no other person in the cabin save a colored lad nine years of age. Har- rison himself was lying helplessly upon a locker in front of his own sleeping-berth, in which hung a short bell pull, the tassel of which his right-hand fingers clutched con- vulsivcly ;â€"-â€"but what help could he summon? The crew, we knew from the quiet over head had been secured. He was, no doubt, l concluded,parti- ally dolerious, and fancied himself still in command of the Le Requin. The lad whose bright glistening eyes had been fixed upon us, (he Was Harrison’s son) cordial of some sort. 1t greatly rc- vived him and the lamp of life played up With momentary bright- ness in the socket. “You well know, Harrison,” carried no colors, but in this strait urged the commanderoftheCurlew, some of the crew ran up a Brazilian “ what I wish to be inforrned~~~ flag; and mfilunll)’ hauled it down assured of.” handed his father a" , “Ay, to be sure I do.- Did the beautiful Bermudian Creole live, die, or mar 'y'f No he sure. Ay, and [will ell yo.u,'f addedflarrison, quickly,.as if suddenly warned that but a*fcw~moments more remained to him. “ You alone: in no one else,s hearing. Johnny,” he went on rapidly, addressing his son. “ I dropped a pocket-book near the fore hatch-way, mind,-â€"â€"fctch me it at once. And you sir P” He looked athmc. Lieutenant Armstrong nod- ded affirmatively, and 1 followed the lad upthe conpaeion-stairs. "Will you answer me, or not? say yes or no 1” “ Yesâ€"yes,” shouted Harrison. fiercely grasping what I had taken for a bell-rope. " Thisâ€"this, atro- cious~tyrant,-_-â€"this is my answer i” A terrible volume ofhjlight flame, accompanied by the roof of'a thou- sand thunders, instantly burst forth." lfelt caught and whirled into the air by a firey whirlwind, and I re- - member nothing more till many days afterwards, when l awoke to return- ing conciousncss 'in on hospital at Cape Coast Castle. 1, had been frightfully bruised, and fever had supervened, but the loss of two left hand fingers Was the only permanent. injury I sustained. The lad, Johnny, had also been picked up, scarcely hurt ; and from him and others of Le Requin’s crew, the mode by which the ex- plosion, which blew the after-part of the schooner into fragments had been effected, was pretty accurately ascertained. It was Harrison’s fixed resolve~espccially after he had added piracy to his loss hazard- ous trade of man-stealingmnever to be taken alive. With this view, a barrel of gun-powder was placed beneath his cabinâ€"floor, into which, when about to engage in any perilr ous enterprize, a flint gun-lock was inserted, the trigger of which was attached to the bell-rope hanging in his sleeping-berth. 30th himself and Lieutenant Armstrong must have been blown to atomsâ€"a sad fate to befall so zealous and promis- ing an ofiicer, more especially just as the Well-earned honours and re- wards of his profession were within his reach, and time had begun to mellow and soften an unfortunate rigidity of temperament, to which, as We have seen, the sudden and melancholy catastrophe was mainly owmg. mwmfl SH 0 P 1’ I N G. She stood beside the counter, The day he'll ne’er forget. She thought the muslin dearer Than any she’d seen yet. He watched her playful fingers The silks and saline toss ; The clerk looked quite uneasy, And nodded at the boss. “ Show me some velvet ribbon,' Barego and satin turc ;” Said she, " I wish to purchase 1” Then gave the goods ajerk. The clerk was all obedience. He travelled “ on his shape 5” At length, with hesitation. She bought a. yard qf‘ tape. A mortal coil.â€"â€"-Ci‘inolinc. An upright man is a. downright good fellow. A scolding wife is toned woman. Song of the liable-to-be ‘ drafted’ son.â€"â€"‘ I would I were a boy again.’ The Element least addicted to Cere- mony.â€"â€"â€"The sea, because it waves all dis- tinctions. 1 generally a highâ€" per- One of the recruiting tents in New York has this motto: ‘Come in out of the Draft.’ Why are military officers the most un- lucky of men 2 Because they are always in some mess or another. RAILWAY lVlAXlM.â€"-AS the route is, so are the branches. There is nothing like ‘war fever.’ A gentleman of our acquaintance on being invited to take a draft of ale, dcclined on the ground that he was over forty-fin: years ofage. Two men by the name of Beans were lately hung in the North of England. A countryman passing near and seeingr the crowd, inquired what they were doing. ‘Only stringing a few Beaus,’ was the reply. A NEW Dismvuo'rANT.â€"~1t is stated that a red-hot shovel covered wilhjuniper- berries, carried through the sick-room, will assist in purifying the air and preventing the spread of disease.â€"Lcmco£ ‘John,’ said Dean Ramsay, ‘l’ui sure ye ken that a rollin’ stone gathers nae moss l’ ‘ Av,’ rejoined J ohn, ‘ thats true ; but can ye tell me what good the moss does the stone '1’ Goon AND DAD QUALITIEs.-â€"‘ Ali, Sam, so you’ve been in trouble, hat) you 'l’ ‘ Yes, Jim, yes.’ ‘ Well, well, cheer up, man, adversity tries us, and shows us our better qualities.’ ‘ Ah, but adversity didn’t try me; it was an old vagabond ob a judge, and he showed up my worst quali- tics.’ AND so FOR’I‘ll.â€"-Tlle Boston Post says there is a young man in the army, who Was born July 11, at 4‘ o’clock, RM), at 4‘45, in a street in that city 1844, a 4th child, has 4« names. enlisted into the Newâ€" ton company which has joined the 11th battalion, 44th Regiment, 44h company, and on the dilli of Septeinper was appoint- ] ml 4th corporal, and. is now going fort/t to l defend lllb country.